are you thirsty ?
By Valentin
@wmraul (2552)
Bucharest, Romania
September 28, 2009 10:10am CST
I am just curious .. if you are thirsty, supossing you want to drink water, you will drink from local water "network" or you preffer to buy bottled water ?
Is the local water, the so called "drinkable" you have in your house coming from faucets, is it really drinkable ? Is ok ?
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12 responses
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Sep 09
I drink filtered tap water. It's safe enough...
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Just kidding...
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
28 Sep 09
Hi wmraul, well we actually have taps on the roads in the village here which provide natural spring water for drinking, but one doesn't actually drink from the tap, but fills bottles from the tap. It comes down from the mountains and we also have natural spring water jets in the sea here too. We also have water from the taps in the house which is fine, but the next village along cannot drink the tap water as too salty so rely totally on the road taps or bottled water for drinking and cooking.
@wmraul (2552)
• Bucharest, Romania
28 Sep 09
I know in my country a certain area is in similar situation. In Danube's Delta. There people have "teached" them organism to "use" river's water (boiled), yet if you have not a "body heritage" about that water, you can get sick in no time ..
I was in that area several time I I hardly accepted to swim in that water .. they drink it and use for cooking ..
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
29 Sep 09
If I drink water, which I don't do enough, I will use my own water bottle and get it out of the fountain. You see, I can't use the standard plastic water bottle as I'm allergic to a chemical they make it with.
@EliteUser (3964)
• Australia
30 Sep 09
Hey,
Yea I am actually thirsty right now, I think that we get our water from a filter that we have installed. So that filters the tap water that comes through, and yes for us, the water is really drinkable, it is really good. Make sure you have a good day, God bless and Happy Lotting!!
@redhotpogo (4401)
• United States
28 Sep 09
I prefer tap water with a filter. Its the same as what's sold in the bottles. You think they get it from some natural clean clear water spring in the frikin alps? hahhahah lolgyser. No. They get it from recycled filtered water. Same thing that's in your taps. People are will believe anything. And they charge you an arm and a leg. Its like buying bottles of sand at the gift shops near the beach. When you can just dump a handful in your pocket for free.
@redhotpogo (4401)
• United States
28 Sep 09
I use to work in a waste treatment facility. Not the sewage kind, but water used for manufacturing. They used high pressure water to make circuit boards for computers. The water that came out of the machines was full of plastics, chemicals, and metals. It had to have alot more nasty chemicals added to it, to get it to the state of "drinkable" Drinkable water still has all the nasty stuff in it, its just an amount deemed by the FDA to be in such small portions as to not cause sickness with normal use by human consumption. It goes in really nasty, and comes out clean. Part of it is used in the manufacturing process again, and some of it is sent back to the city, as required, to go through a few more filtering stages (not much more), and out your faucets. The manufacturing method is stricter though. City water is not something I would want to drink straight. I once took a sample of water straight out of the tap here where I live (because someone that worked there told me to do it, and promised me I would be grossed out.), and what I found after testing it was the water wouldn't even pass our standards. We immediately got filters. There is no such thing as fresh water. Its all filtered. Either by man or by nature. Finding water that has been naturally cleaned is not easy. You can bet that no bottling company has a clean source of water out of some spring. Just their presence would pollute it. And the cost of sending someone to the alps to get so called "fresh spring water", would be outrageous. I forgot my point now, so i'm going to quit typing. Pretend I said something really life changing.
@wmraul (2552)
• Bucharest, Romania
28 Sep 09
You are right, yet taking sand for free from the beach can be seen as tiefing, if the beach is "private" 
Of course most of bottled water are filled with recycled water. SOME of them are really multiple filtred somehow, mean have better quality than tap water, which is mostly named "drinkable" because is not lethal if you use it to wash clothes 
Of course most of bottled water are filled with recycled water. SOME of them are really multiple filtred somehow, mean have better quality than tap water, which is mostly named "drinkable" because is not lethal if you use it to wash clothes 
@agmp26 (21)
• Philippines
28 Sep 09
Well, I drink water from own faucet (I know it's safe but I use water filter at home, too) when at home but when on a travel/trip, I drink bottled ones.
@Archie0 (5636)
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28 Sep 09
i have a problem drinking water as well. I can go days with just maybe a glass a day and no more. needless to say, i've been warned that this is horrible for me so i've been drinking water a lot more. if you start your day with a glass of water you'll crave it more as the day goes on. the more you drink it the more thirsty you'll be. after i started drinking more water i started to wonder how i only drank so little of it before. it'll just naturally be more of a craving the more you work yourself into it.
yes, unfortunately I know the water quality here ..
At home I have a nice filter but at work I rely on botled (mineral) water (usually with "bubbles" 
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
28 Sep 09
Our water coming into the house is more than acceptable but I like ti drink Spring water. However, this is becoming a thing of the past as I can manage wihtout it and the prices have escalated so very much
@wmraul (2552)
• Bucharest, Romania
28 Sep 09
Take a piece of .. gauze I think is the name .. that white thing is used to cover wounds .. that is clean and sterilized.
Put it in a glass of water, put water 3/4 of glass, cover with a plastic and seal it. Check it again after several days (3-4), loose the water and watch the gauze's aspect ...
@IMEzekieL (498)
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29 Sep 09
At the moment, no I'm not thirsty. But I'm fond of drinking water. It's my favorite kind of drink. Thirsty or not thirsty, I'm drinking water frequently.
